The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-09-01
Literary News and Notes.

Oar Little one for September is :. dainty and
delightful number
The late pr spencer T. Baird was the auth
or of more than 200 books. pamphlets aud
publications Of Nariuiis kinds.
The freaks of the Brownies as portrayed in
''>t. Nicholas" by Mr. Palmer Cox have long
delighted Youngsters and elders alike. These
whimsical drawings and verses will shortly he
collected in volume 10 be published by 'The
Century Company.
Tile serials in lIarper's Magazine are ap-
proachinG their close the September install
mcnt Of Miss D'Mcara's Russian novel "Narka''
BEN" within two parts of the conclusion.
llowcll~'> story of Boston society. April
Hopes. which Is now rambling Delightfully."-
through the Icnouement of the bctrothed lovers
Dan and Alice. will also end in the November
number.
The, September number Of the Popular >cicucc
monthly has the following table of contents:
The Econonir Disturbances since 1873. Ill.
BY Hon. David a. Wells IL. y. Sleep and
lis tounterfcit>. By Dr. y de Wattecvillr In
lustriai Training Two Centuries Ago. BY
George p. Morris. Social >ustcnance. BY Henry
j. Philpo1t. Specialization. Ethnoog-
cal Sketches in AMMAN and Tonquin. Cork, its
Manufacture and Properties. BY Arthur Good
and William Anderson. IIllIStratcdl. A Bo-
taniral Bonanza. BY +. +. Boynton. >pccrhc,
At the Recent Tyn,lali Banquet. BY i'rofes-
sor> Stokes and IyndaIl Sir Lyon rayfair. the
Earl Of Derby. and others. Some Human In
Hiinct>. ii. BY Professor William James. Ply
sioogy Of Freezing. by DR.. Won N,ssl,al,in.
sketch of John J. Audubon. with Portrait.
Correspondence. Editors Table Culture and
Chararter.-Thc Tyndall BanIuct-lioncSt
iic-ln>urhncc. Literary Notices. Popular
Miscellany. Notes.
The interest of the Atlantic for September
may be said 20 depend greatly on most interest
ing n>taiimcnS of its two serial stories by Mrs
o'iphant and Mr. Crawford. Both of these are
At their climax; Mr.. Crawfor,l's especially has
scene which for thrilling novelty is almost
uncqInled. DIR. Holmes, i'll "Our Hundred
DAYS III Enropc.' tells about his stay in Paris
and hi, visits 10 some of the places he had seen
years before. particularly st. Eticnne iu Mont
the Pantheon, the Cafe Procope. the Louvre,
the laais Royal, the Bots de Boulogne: and
also of Il visit TO Monsieur I'astcur. The At
ltii'ir. IN tact, seems rather devoted to France,
for this number has also All article by Ellen
Terry johnson entitled ''Ic Roi Manull. :" be-
inG an account of Louis NIN.'s promising sou.
the Duke of Burgundy, who, had he succeeded
ms father. would have made French history so
different. Another article, by John Bach Me
Master, upon ''Frankiin in France" shows
how Franklin succeeded in making himself thc
idol of the French al The period subsequent to
the revolution. Mr.. \. G. Gordon contributes
short and touching story of negro life, called
"A fmchtown Paupcr." Bradford Torrcy has
an article about the virco, called "A Woodland
Intimate by River and Road in Russia
gives an interesting account Of Russian Jour
nrv, and is written by Edmund Noble. The
two 's"li'f' articles OF this issue are "a Study
OF Early E@oti>ni," by Elizabeth Robins Pen
nell. and THE Soul of the Far East by Per-
cNal Lowell: the latter article is the first of Il
series. incr The title of An Old Book" =
curious account is given of the foundation of
st. Hartholomew'> Church at >nlithiici. Lon
don. LGui>e Chandler Mo,llton Andrew He'd
brooke. and William ranstoi l.aWton coutrj-
butte eNcel"h! poetry. and there are reviews of
recent novels and clever .'t'lib" IIo,,"Itton.
Millln ~ Co.. Boston.